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'Mehemea ka ngaro te reo o tētahi iwi, e kore ōna whakaaro'
Posted by · September 11, 2022 10:44 PM
E ao te taonga ko te reo o ngā mātua, kia mau ai ā rātou kupu, ngā rerenga, me tō rātou momo kōrero Māori.
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The Māori Language in Katikati Rereatukahia and Lower Kaimai
Posted by · September 11, 2022 10:07 AM
Being punished in schools for speaking Maori put many people off teaching it to their own children. -
The Māori Language in Tauranga City, Mount Maunganui and District
Posted by · September 10, 2022 4:01 PM
The majority of people wanted their children to learn the language. -
The Māori Language in Matata, Awakaponga and Pikowai (1974)
Posted by · September 10, 2022 3:45 PM
Maori was the first language spoken by about half the people interviewed. -
The Māori Language in Taneatua & Peketahi
Posted by · September 10, 2022 3:39 PM
There was difficulty for some fluent speakers in finding enough other people to talk to in Maori. -
The Māori Language in Kutarere and Wainui 1974
Posted by · September 10, 2022 3:22 PM
One woman said she was glad to be living in the country again as she feels she lost a lot of her Maori identity by not being able to use her Maori language while living in the city. -
The Māori Language in Te Puke and Manoeka
Posted by · September 10, 2022 3:18 PM
In Manoeka, Maori was the language most preferred for conversation. -
The Māori Language in Rotoiti
Posted by · September 10, 2022 3:04 PM
People wanted Maori taught in schools, some parents felt this may well be the only chance their children would ever have of learning the language.
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The Māori Language in Ngongotaha
Posted by · September 10, 2022 2:57 PM
Many parents were brought up in households where only English had been spoken, and could not teach their own children Maori.
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The Māori Language in Ngapuna 1978
Posted by · September 10, 2022 2:53 PM
Some had tried teaching their children and mokopuna Maori, but felt they had no chance against English.
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The Māori Language on Matakana Island 1976
Posted by · September 10, 2022 2:45 PM
As English was also the main language of radio, TV and newspapers, some people thought that Maori could easily die out
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The Māori Language in Poroporo 1974
Posted by · September 10, 2022 2:38 PM
Two-thirds of the school-age children knew no Maori at all, and this was a big worry to many parents we interviewed
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The Māori Language in Kawerau 1974
Posted by · September 10, 2022 2:33 PM
Many parents were worried about the future of the language in Kawerau, and a lot of them were right behind the teaching of Maori in schools
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The Māori Language in Piripai 1974
Posted by · September 10, 2022 2:28 PM
Half of the people had been strapped at school for speaking Maori. -
The Māori Language in Paroa 1974
Posted by · September 10, 2022 2:23 PM
Children seldom spoke Maori in the community, and nearly always replied in English when spoken to in Maori.
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The Māori Language in Onepu
Posted by · September 10, 2022 2:01 PM
As the language was still spoken well by more than half the people surveyed, there was not the same fear
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The Māori Language in Waimana
Posted by · September 10, 2022 1:57 PM
Many people were doing their best to encourage their children to speak Maori so that it will survive.
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The Māori Language in Rotorua 1978
Posted by · September 10, 2022 1:51 PM
About one fifth of the informants had been beaten for speaking Maori as children at school. -
The Māori Language in Te Puna
Posted by · September 10, 2022 1:46 PM
There was a lot of concern about the younger generations, who did not know the language and parents were improving their own knowledge and teaching their children
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The Māori Language in Rangiuru, Waitangi, Te Matai and Paengaroa 1976
Posted by · September 10, 2022 1:41 PM
Several people talked about the importance of the language and the culture for present and future generations of Maori people
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The Māori Language in Matahina and Te Mahoe 1974
Posted by · September 10, 2022 1:30 PM
Some people were sorry that Maori was no longer the language for everyday use in the area. -
The Māori Language in Waiohau 1974
Posted by · September 10, 2022 1:16 PM
Most informants regarded knowledge of the Maori language as an important part of being Maori. -
The Māori Language in Te Teko
Posted by · September 10, 2022 1:11 PM
Half the adults stated that they had been punished as children for speaking Māori at school. -
Airini Grennell and the Polynesian Trio
Posted by · September 10, 2022 11:19 AM
Her immaculate voice training and superb diction in both te reo Māori and English, with a noted BBC-ish lilt, suited her to the position well. -
I tēnei rekoata i pōwhiritia e Airini Grennell te minenga i te reo Māori.
Posted by · September 10, 2022 11:17 AM
Airini Ngā Roimata Grennell 1910-1988 (Ngāti Tama, Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāi Tahu). -
The Māori Language in Ruatoki 1974
Posted by · September 10, 2022 11:03 AM
Because Maori is a living language, used in both home and community, by young and old
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Maori for Beginners, 1972
Posted by · September 10, 2022 10:22 AM
"In 1972 if you wanted to learn the language you couldn't reach for an app or go online - you went out and you bought some vinyl.
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Te Reo Māori lessons by radio correspondence, 1956
Posted by · September 10, 2022 10:16 AM
In the state system, the options were very limited until the late 1960s, when te reo became a language subject for School Certificate. -
First recording - Whakarewarewa school, Rotorua, 1948
Posted by · September 10, 2022 10:10 AM
The first recording is not of children learning te reo, it's first-language reo-speaking kids learning English. -
The Māori Language in Maketu 1977
Posted by · September 09, 2022 11:27 PM
Many people we spoke to were very sorry that they did not have the chance to learn Maori as children. -
The Māori Language in Ruatahuna 1974
Posted by · September 09, 2022 11:17 PM
Twenty-one of the 31 informants said that they had been punished for speaking Maori while at school. -
The Māori Language in Tawera 1974
Posted by · September 09, 2022 11:10 PM
Most people from the Tawera district spoke both English and Maori and were very proud of it. -
The state of te reo amongst whānau in Mourea 1978-1982
Posted by · September 09, 2022 10:43 PM
Many of the people interviewed, especially the elderly, were concerned about the decline in knowledge and use of Maori in the area. -
Te reo Māori: Tertiary provider 'revolutionary change' for top of the South
Posted by · September 09, 2022 3:36 PM
Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology (NMIT) has been chosen as one of 13 providers to deliver a programme aimed at normalising te reo Māori in the education sector. -
Storing our reo treasures
Posted by · September 09, 2022 3:30 PM
The kuia taught us how to read Māori from the Māori prayer book. -
Te Reo Pāpāho
Posted by · September 09, 2022 3:25 PM
The first extensive use of te reo Māori on air didn’t really eventuate until 1927. -
Kura kaupapa drowns out anti-reo Māori complaints at hockey game with waiata
Posted by · September 09, 2022 3:15 PM
A secondary school boys hockey tournament held over the weekend in Ōtautahi, Christchurch, saw complaints from the crowd about Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Ruamata’s team’s use of te reo Māori.
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'Nui ake tēnei take i a koe': This is far greater than just you
Posted by · September 09, 2022 1:22 PM
Dame Naida Glavish talks to RNZ about her historical moment. -
'Nui ake tēnei take i a koe' - Dame Naida Glavish
Posted by · September 09, 2022 1:19 PM
This voice came to me and it was saying "nui ake tēnei take i a koe" and I knew it was the voice of my grandmother who had died in 1972. -
Arohatia te reo - Cool to kōrero in Ōtautahi
Posted by · September 09, 2022 1:06 PM
Nō Guyon Espiner e uiui ana i a Mita Matthews, i whakatau ia kia kōrerotia e ia te reo Māori, a i rere pai ngā kōrero.
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Kahurangi Hinewehi Mohi
Posted by · September 09, 2022 1:00 PM
Ko te nuinga o tōku reanga (e 30 tau tōku pakeke) kāore e whai whakaaro ki tā tātou waiata i te ngaringari ā-motu i roto i te reo Māori me te reo Pākehā. -
Dame Hinewehi Mohi
Posted by · September 09, 2022 12:59 PM
"Most people my age (I’m 30) take it for granted that we sing both the reo Māori and English versions of the national anthem. -
First kōhanga reo opens
Posted by · September 09, 2022 12:53 PM
Chief Judge Edward Durie (left) and Paul Temm QC visit a kōhanga reo at Waiwhetū, Lower Hutt, in 1985. -
Pātea Māori Club - Poi E
Posted by · September 09, 2022 12:46 PM
Poi E is number one on the NZ Music Charts in 1984 -
Poi E turns 40
Posted by · September 09, 2022 12:15 PM
You ask any non-Māori born in Aotearoa, and I'm sure they’ll know one or two lines of the waiata. -
Hēmi Kelly's journey to helping others on their reo Māori journey
Posted by · September 09, 2022 10:35 AM
I didn’t grow up speaking te reo Māori. -
Bringing te reo to life in the places we live
Posted by · September 09, 2022 10:00 AM
The language links stretching back through time, across the largest ocean in the world, were systematically severed by the Crown. -
Celebrating our reo warriors
Posted by · September 08, 2022 8:30 PM
Not only can you speak te reo on the bus, but now even the bus speaks te reo! -
The ongoing fight to school our own, our own way
Posted by · September 08, 2022 8:27 PM
Home was like school and school was like home. -
Pakehas learning Maori
Posted by · September 08, 2022 8:26 PM
My biggest regret of course is that it wasn't available to me at school. -
Te Taumata to go online teaching northern reo
Posted by · September 08, 2022 8:23 PM
Thomas says the future of Te Taumata lies in the need for the dialect of the north to remain strong. -
He Pākehā tūturu, he ahorangi hoki a Arana Collet, ā, he matatau ia ki te reo Māori.
Posted by · September 08, 2022 8:10 PM
He Pākehā tūturu, he ahorangi hoki a Arana Collet, ā, he matatau ia ki te reo Māori.
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Me ngana tātou ki te tuku i te reo Māori
Posted by · September 08, 2022 8:05 PM
He huarahi ki reira hei whai mā mātou ngā rōia ki te tuku i te reo Māori. -
Dame Hinewehi Mohi: For the love of the language
Posted by · September 08, 2022 8:01 PM
At the end of 2018, I asked my friend Adam Holt, who heads Universal Music, what he thought of working with artists to translate and record their hit songs in Māori. -
A Whānau Affair
Posted by · September 08, 2022 7:57 PM
I made sure that I never took what I had for granted. -
The Making of a Māori Town - Ōtaki
Posted by · September 08, 2022 7:54 PM
It’s common to hear Māori spoken in the supermarket, the gyms, and the takeaway shops. -
It was a huge commitment from my parents. Not just learning te reo Māori as adults but also deciding to send their children to kura kaupapa Māori.
Posted by · September 08, 2022 7:50 PM
It was a huge commitment from my parents. -
Rawiri Wright - it's cool to be Māori
Posted by · September 08, 2022 7:46 PM
There was a turning point, a career switch, 30 years ago. -
Pakehas learning Maori
Posted by · September 08, 2022 7:43 PM
In 1969 we went on a Maori Studies field trip up round the East Coast. -
We have the right to be Māori in our own land
Posted by · September 08, 2022 7:40 PM
Recently, I’ve been cleaning up files and what-not, and found papers eaten by silverfish and mildewed because they got wet. -
Māori stories and language at the heart of publisher's 30-year success
Posted by · September 08, 2022 7:37 PM
Our kaupapa is to promote Māori writing and writers,” says Eboni Waitere, co-executive director alongside Brian Morris. -
The inside journey of Lorde's surprise mini-album in te reo Māori
Posted by · September 08, 2022 7:32 PM
I was writing an album about the spiritual power of the natural world, specifically in the context of where we’re from, and I realised; oh, there’s a word for this – it’s kaitiakitanga. -
Managing the typing pool
Posted by Rawinia Higgins · September 08, 2022 8:45 AM
Kura Hapairangi Wehipeihana was in charge of the typing pool at Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori in our earliest days.
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Helping mum find her reo
Posted by Mikala Stokes · September 07, 2022 8:57 PM
My mum has started at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa this year after losing her reo after leaving high school over 40 years ago. -
Te Mana Kuratahi o Te Whanganui-a-Tara ki Ōtaki 2021
Posted by · September 07, 2022 6:10 PM
Ka maewa kōmuri te aro ki namata, ki te utanga mai o Matahōrua. -
"Any platform where the language is, is good for the language"
Posted by · September 07, 2022 1:49 PM
"Any platform where the language is, is good for the language."
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Native Schools Code 1880
Posted by Jasmine Taankink · September 07, 2022 9:57 AM
One of my tūpuna pākehā was James Henry Pope. In January 1880 he was appointed to the position of Inspector of Native Schools. -
Te whakaatatanga i te ao reo
Posted by E-Tangata · September 06, 2022 6:33 PM
E kōrero atu nei a Sienna Yates ki a Kristin Ross o Punarau Media, e pā ana ki ngā mahi pakeke ki te whakatupu tamariki i roto i tētahi kāinga reo Māori, koia i whakaihu waka ai tōna pakihi.
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FranklyAI breaks through language barrier
Posted by Lana Simmons-Donaldson · September 06, 2022 5:35 PM
A breakthrough, made by AI researcher Punahamoa Walker (Te Whakatōhea) earlier this year, led to the creation of artificial intelligence that can be used to engage Māori speaking communities. -
Te Ra Nui o te Reo Māori - Māori Language Day 1973
Posted by · September 06, 2022 1:06 AM
The objective is to offer to all New Zealanders the opportunity to share in our dual (linguistic and cultural) heritage. Initially this would be through correct pronunciation of local place names, personal names, etc. In this way opportunities for experiencing the values of another culture can be provided for Pakehas and our nation's cultural identity enriched.
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Te Ngahere Rino
Posted by Trey Strickland · September 05, 2022 10:20 AM
He kākano ahau I tupu mai i raro i ngā whare teitei o ngā taone nui, ngā taone roa. -
Te Reo Maori me nga Tikanga hikoi
Posted by Gary Beer · September 05, 2022 10:20 AM
In 2003, 2004 & 2005 i embarked on my hikoi seeking higher knowledge of Te Reo Maori me ona Tikanga. -
Kia ora, I am Kandace.
Posted by Kandace Smiler · September 05, 2022 10:20 AM
My name is Kandace Smiler and I was enrolled in 1983, the second Kohanga Reo at Waiwhetu Marae, in Wellington costing $25/ week which was a lot for my parents back then plus morning tea roster. -
50 years of ako i te reo maori
Posted by Mary cavanagh · September 04, 2022 10:50 AM
In 1972, 50 years ago, I was at Teachers' Secondary College in Tamaki Makau Rau. -
On behalf of my mother
Posted by Kandace Smiler · September 02, 2022 12:41 PM
From my mother Tania: My daughter Kandace Rewa Smiler attended one of the first Kohanga Reo based at Waiwhetu Marae and Te Aroha cricket clubrooms from 1982 to 1985.
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Remembering Hana Te Hemara’s Māori language petition, 50 years on
Posted by · September 01, 2022 2:27 PM
She was the driving force behind the Māori language petition that led to the revitalisation of te reo in Aotearoa, and a tireless campaigner for indigenous rights for decades after. -
"Akona te Reo Māori"
Posted by · September 01, 2022 2:26 PM
"Ngā Tamatoa and supporters protest at St. -
Māoritanga is "in"!
Posted by · September 01, 2022 2:15 PM
"Mrs Jones taking Maori language with, from left, Carol Jarvie, Jennie Butler, Vicki Brinkman, Barbara Bellerby and advanced student Stuart Drake".
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Members of Ngā Tamatoa at Parliament
Posted by · September 01, 2022 2:11 PM
Nga Tamatoa at Parliament, 1972
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Petition to introduce te reo Māori in schools, 1972
Posted by · September 01, 2022 2:04 PM
The petition in Archives New Zealand. -
Māoritanga is "in"!
Posted by · September 01, 2022 1:56 PM
"An upsurging interest in Maori culture and crafts is taking place throughout the country. -
Māori language petition 1972
Posted by · September 01, 2022 1:55 PM
Māori language petition being delivered to Parliament on 14 September 1972. -
Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings about Māori
Posted by · September 01, 2022 1:48 PM
This image is of Maiki Williams and Joan Chapman, students at Queen Victoria School, in this piece titled "Maoris should be bilingual". -
Advancing Aspirations for a Bicultural Future with He Aratūtahi Launch
Posted by Tabitha Newton · September 01, 2022 11:48 AM
The National Māori Authority and the Duke of Edinburgh’s Hillary Award have joined forces in a new partnership to advocate and develop pathways for young New Zealanders that are inclusive of Te Ao Māori and Tikanga Māori.
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Whakaangiangi Road Native School vs W J Walker & Sons Wood Mill , Te Araroa 1940's-50's.
Posted by Jesamine Wanoa · August 31, 2022 11:03 PM
At a time when 157 Maori and several Pakeha children were forbidden and punished for speaking Te Reo Maori at Whakaangiangi School, by the then Pakeha Principal John Charles, not even a mile down the same road, Mr Bill Walker, Pakeha owner of the local native timber mill company W J Walker & Sons, was actively encouraging his Ngati Porou employees to speak Te Reo Maori, so that he could converse fluently in it with his employees and clientele, the majority of whom were Maori.
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Back in my Kōhanga days, there weren't many children's books for the home.
Posted by Kiriana Hautapu · August 31, 2022 3:43 PM
Mum created these flashcards herself so that we had our own.
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My first Kōhanga Reo was Ōrākei Marae in Tāmaki Makaurau.
Posted by Makere Carroll · August 31, 2022 2:37 PM
My first Kōhanga Reo was Ōrākei Marae in Tāmaki Makaurau.
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My first birthday at Kohanga
Posted by Manihera Te Hei · August 31, 2022 2:37 PM
This was during my first birthday at my kōhanga.
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I tipu ake au i the Kōhanga Reo, ā, ki te Kōhanga Reo o Manawanui tera I Tamaki nei
Posted by Mihi Henare · August 31, 2022 2:20 PM
I tipu ake au i the Kōhanga Reo, ā, ki te Kōhanga Reo o Manawanui tera I Tamaki nei.
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Nā te kōhanga ahau i tangata ai.
Posted by Kyle Amopiu · August 31, 2022 2:19 PM
Nā te kōhanga ahau i tangata ai, from the enrolment of my 3 children (the eldest is 16 now) i have been involved with and now have the privilege of serving in the unique initiative that is Kōhanga reo, i have held a plethora of positions in the kaupapa from a whānau member through to Kaiako Matua, these positions have aided in my successful transition into other roles on boards (land trusts, School Boards, Te Whakakitenga) and also teaching opportunities (Te Reo Māori initiatives, Waiata classes, Rangatahi project’s etc).
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As a product of Te Kohanga Reo o Puketapu ki Rāhui Pokeka
Posted by Tamarangi Harawira · August 31, 2022 2:17 PM
As a product of Te Kohanga Reo o Puketapu ki Rāhui Pokeka, I remember the best times playing in the sandpit and on the swings, but also singing waiata.
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As a Pākehā I think it is our responsibility to do the heavy lifting on what we took.
Posted by Tove Partington · August 31, 2022 2:13 PM
As a Pākehā I think it is our responsibility to do the heavy lifting on what we took.
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Waiata time!
Posted by Kahli Hobbs · August 31, 2022 2:07 PM
Here are my babies singing a waiata that I have heard all around Aotearoa!
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Kia ora, I am Rewa.
Posted by Rewa Wahanui · August 31, 2022 1:55 PM
Kia ora I am a mama to two children both have been at kohangas from three months old in Wellington upper up being at kohanga was the best decision my partner and I made the aroha in them and the support was amazing I can't thank them enough my kids then left and now go to kuras up in whangarei were we live now.
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Nā te Kōhanga reo au i poipoi i puawai kia tipu ora ai taku reo rangatira
Posted by Marcia Pohatu Brown · August 31, 2022 1:49 PM
Kātahi anō mātau ka tae atu ki te kōhanga reo 15meneti te roa hei taraiwa mai i Tūranga ki Waituhi.
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Kāore au i whāi wāhi ki te kaupapa o te Kōhanga Reo i taku tamarikitanga.
Posted by Teriaki Tamasese · August 31, 2022 1:46 PM
Kāore au i whāi wāhi ki te kaupapa o te Kōhanga Reo i taku tamarikitanga.
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Bilingualism in school: The Waiwhetu Experiment
Posted by Kandace Smiler · August 31, 2022 12:25 PM
An old newspaper excerpt with me as the star child. -
1984 The first National Kohanga Reo conference was hosted at Turangawaewae Marae Ngaruawahia.
Posted by Pareoranga Te Kata · August 31, 2022 12:21 PM
1984 The first National Kohanga Reo conference was hosted at Turangawaewae Marae Ngaruawahia and Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu read out her honorary open speech.
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I still vividly remember being around 4yrs old when my Mum would drop me off kicking and screaming at Aranui Kohanga.
Posted by Daniel Mataki · August 31, 2022 11:54 AM
I still vividly remember being around 4yrs old when my Mum would drop me off kicking and screaming at Aranui Kohanga all the kids in east Otautahi were pretty rough so I definitely learned from the school of hard knocks lol, but one of my fondest memories was receiving my whale bone Kohanga Reo Taonga, it didnt mean much at the time but as I grew older and realised its significance, the journey and the wider context I was privileged to be a part of movement.
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We can still save Turakina
Posted by E-Tangata · August 30, 2022 10:00 AM
I have no problem in standing up, and speaking up, for Turakina. That school taught me many things, and one of them was to be strong.